Re: Y2K info

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

modus-dejanews@pr.es.to (Patrick Michael Kane) wrote:

>On 28 Sep 1998 01:20:03 GMT, A2MG <a2mg@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Let us know when and if an AW5 upgrade becomes available. 
>>
>>We're not going to do it. We could, but it would be illegal.
>>
>>
>>Beverly Cadieux 
>>AppleWorks 2000 updates now available
>
>Actually, it's perfectly within your rights as an owner of the Appleworks
>software.  
>
>See ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/softwarelaw.html for a good discussion
>of this very topic.
>
>If the intent was to sell the patch, on the other hand, instead of giving
>it away, you are quite right.  It would be illegal.

Why is it illegal?  Quality, before talking to Claris, was going to
release what came to be known as AppleWorks 4 as a set of
patches to AppleWorks 3 called "Quadriga".

If it is illegal, how could Quality have considered it?  Would it
not make software like Signature GS (again from Quality) which
patch the sound and graphics of GS/OS, in essense an upgrade,
criminal?

Selling it as "AppleWorks 6" might be illegal.  Selling it as
"The Works" or some other name would not.